The stalemate in the Uttarakhand Congress on the election of a new Leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) continues. Senior leaders of the party and the MLAs held meetings for third consecutive day on Tuesday in New Delhi to arrive on a consensus on the issue. The political compulsion of striking caste and regional factors while selecting the candidate for LoP has complicated the tangle for the party. On Monday the Congress legislature party in its meeting passed a one line resolution in which the responsibility of electing the new CLP leader was handed over to the party high command.

It was expected that the name of the CLP leader would be announced on Tuesday but at the time of filing the story no such announcement was made.

 It is learnt that the party wants the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Pritam Singh to leave the position of party president and become CLP leader.

Pritam Singh is said to be reluctant to leave the PCC president’s post. Former chief minister and general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Harish Rawat is said to be interested in appointing the person of his choice on the post of PCC president. It is pertinent to mention here that the Late Indira Hridayesh was a Brahmin from Kumaon region and after her death there is no Brahmin MLA left in the party.  The problem for the Congress is that if it appoints Karan Mahra or Govind Singh Kunjwal as CLP leader then both the PCC president and CLP leader would be from Rajput community. In such a situation the party wants that some Brahmin should be appointed on the post of PCC president. The names of Ganesh Godiyal,  Manoj Tiwari, Navprabhat, Kishore Upadhyaya and Hemesh Kharkwal are making rounds in the political circles as probable replacements of Singh on the position of PCC president.